Monday Morning Memo

We're in Nassau taking a much-needed vacation away from all accountabilities. I'm unabashedly hiding. There are "islands" in the various pools at the resort, with plants and palm trees on them. I'm reminded of a vacation we took somewhere in Mexico

From my balcony at The Breakers in West Palm Beach, Florida, I was watching the sun rise at about 7:40 when I noticed, far below, a worker drive a tractor onto the beach to begin clearing it of the prior

Some time ago, I returned to my seat on a plane and promptly spilled wine on the man next to me, who was wearing a gray business suit. I was horrified and hugely apologetic. “Look,” he said, “it’s no big deal,

I was wandering around my closet trying to understand how I had so much "stuff." Racks are filled, drawers filled, shelves filled. When I'm home I wear a shirt and jeans and comfortable shoes. I don't change four times a

We look back, somewhat embarrassed at our pasts: haircuts, fashions, entertainment, behaviors. We ask ourselves, "What were we thinking?" Disco? Folk songs? Tail fins on cars? Peace signs? Pinky rings? But we look back from the present as though it's a

A couple of years ago, I tried to organize one of my elite events in Marrakech. A minority of the attendees refused to go, telling me it was “too dangerous.” These are intelligent people whom I respect, but I knew

I believe in being informed. Ironically, with immediate access to massive communications today, it's harder than ever! We can be besieged, overwhelmed, and gobsmacked, but accurate information which we can transform into pragmatic knowledge—not so much. The escutcheon of the media

We seem to have lost all sense of reason. “Reason,” to me, is about common sense, sanity, and logic. I think it also involves emotions. But “reasonable people” are able to synergize these elements into effective responses. For example, I’m an